This is a list of hostage crises by date. Jump to: navigation, search A hostage crisis is a situation created by militants or terrorists wherein they take over a building full of people and then: (a) hold them till their demands are met, or (b) hold them until someone they respect tells them to stop or they decide to...
For a list of hostage crisis events, see the list of hostagecrises.
Incidents like the one in which armed men took over the Church of the Nativity are not necessarily a hostage crisis, as long as there is no plan to kill any of the people being held.
Advocates of "negotiation" ignore or deny the idea that the current hostages should be sacrificed to prevent future incidents, on various moral grounds — particularly the families of the hostages.
Two hostages were shot by terrorists, while the others died through a combination of the fentanyl-based aerosol, lack of food and water, and the lack of adequate medical treatment following the raid.
Family members of hostages panicked as the government refused to release any information about which hospitals their loved ones had been taken to, or even whether their relatives were among the dead.
A German toxicology professor who examined several German hostages said that their blood and urine contained halothane, a surgical anesthetic not commonly used in the West, and that it was likely the gas had additional components.
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